The Filipino Entrepreneur

To make glutathione herbal soap, you will need to invest for buying the raw materials and utensils, particularly a pail, spatula, hand mixer, scraper, small containers, and a 335mm (L) by 424mm(W) by 100mm(H) mold. You will need this mold to shape a long bar that could be cut up into 60 individual bars of soap. (If you can’t find a mold of this size, you can improvise by making your own mold.)

Here are The Materials You Need To Get Started:

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…I think the only way we can save this planet is by going back to the basics like in the seventies or earlier perhaps. Where people use brown paper bags instead of plastic bags when they purchase items from the supermarkets or groceries. Also, detergents or other cleanings stuffs are mostly made up of organic ingredients instead of harsh chemicals that destroys the environment. I’m not sure is there is a strong demand nowadays of biodegradable detergents as per the article I read in a magazine but I think the reason perhaps is the awareness of people on the global warming and protecting the environment.

And with respect to the cleaning power of the biodegradable detergent soap versus the commercial detergent soap, it is also said that it is comparable and with other benefits like being mild to the skin and clothes. But if you ask me, I’ll choose the biodegradable detergent so we can protect the environment because this planet is not like a piece of clothing that you can throw away when old and ragged. Mother earth is only one and cannot be replaced.

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Yogurt is one of my favorite dessert and also my family, and specially my daughter. They are good to eat if they come in with fruit bits like mangoes, papaya, buko and nata de coco. Whenever I buy in the supermarket I always have second thoughts because of the cost. Imagine, just a 125ml of a known local brand will cost as much as 32 pesos. But if you will try to make it at home, you will definitely save a lot of money. Why? because making yogurt with a liter of milk will also produce 1 liter. For example, if you buy a liter of fresh milk in tetra pack, it will cost more or less 65 pesos and will produce about 8 cups of 125ml yogurt. If the price of a 125 yogurt is 32 pesos, multiply it by 8 and it will cost you 256 pesos!

Comparing it with a home made yogurt, 65 pesos of milk is only 25% of the 256 pesos worth of 8 cups of yogurt. And despite the proliferation of yogurt makers on the market, everything you need to make yogurt is probably already in your kitchen, with the possible exception of the thermometer. So to start making the yogurt, you will need: Read the rest of this entry »

Making bath soap as a home business can also be profitable. The procedure I got has two versions, the opaque and the transparent. See procedure below:

A. PREPARATION OF TOILET SOAP/BATH SOAP (OPAQUE)

Materials/Ingredients (for 14 bars, 135 g/bar)

Refined coconut oil - 4.5 kg
Caustic soda solution (32oBe) - 3.25 kg
EDTA (Ethylene diaminetetracetate) - 70 g
Citric acid - 70 g
Sodium chloride - 4.5 g
CDEA (Coco diethanolamide) - 50 g
Light mineral oil - 70 g
Scent to suit
Color (optional)

Equipment/Tools

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Soy sauce is one of the most popular seasonings and it is well adapted here in our country. it is one of the world’s oldest condiments and has been used in China for more than 2,500 years. It is made from fermenting a mixture of mashed soybeans, salt, and enzymes. It is also made artificially through a chemical process known as acid hydrolysis.

Although this product is widespread, seen in almost any supermarket, sari sari store or wet market making your own soy sauce at home can also be a sideline income specially if you can make a better one. But for starters, you can start a simple procedure like the one I got below before you can experiment on your own. Just remember, even a simple product like these and having so many competition can be overcome by creativity. Again remember the saying ” A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”.

Procedure on How to Make Soy Sauce:

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